 LaripS.com, © Bradley Lehman, 2005-8, all rights reserved.All musical/historical analysis here on the LaripS.com web site is the personal opinion of the author,
as a researcher of historical temperaments and a performer of Bach's music.
Responses to other people's published articles and books about this tuning
November 2006: I have prepared detailed responses to articles in the November issue of Early Music.
Each response has its own page.
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November 2006: Ross W Duffin's new book, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, And Why You Should Care gives a good presentation of this temperament,
along with broader musical issues for non-keyboard instruments.
W W Norton, ISBN 10: 0-393-06227-9, ISBN 13: 978-0-393-06227-4.
See also Duffin's web letter to
readers of the book offering listening examples: comparing this Bach temperament with equal temperament,
in music by Wagner/Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, and Gershwin.
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December 2007: My response to Miklos Spanyi's article "Kirnberger's Temperament and its Use in Today's Musical Praxis"
(May 2007) is on the Bach temperaments page. It does take a gratuitous shot at
my temperament, in an outrageously funny and meaningless endnote
(that it's like being stuck in economy class, cramped next to a fat person!),
but my main objections to the article are both musical and historical....
There is also a YouTube video where I
demonstrate how this Kirnberger temperament sounds in Bach's music in C major.
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